Life Magazine – July 9, 1925 (# 2227) – Old Home Week Number, Main Street

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Cover : Small town main street stretching around the world, “Main Street,” art by Fred G. Cooper.

– OLD HOME WEEK NUMBER.
– Full page color ad for Crane fixtures.
– Full page black and white ads for Cadillac (no car), Hargraft & Sons Ben Wade pipes and tobacco (The table is set for a man’s party!), Willys-Knight cars (brilliantly conceived, beautifully designed), Coty, Gillete Safety Razor blades.
– Extremely cool artwork by Alfred Frueh running across two pages katty-corner, showing the evolution of man from monkey to modern man, advancing up the steps.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Ellison Hoover (two pages : bird’s-eye view of the World Series in Dayton, Tennessee), C. H. Sykes (The Escort : ghostly Viking ship sailing through ice bergs below airplane), John Held Jr. (Music down through the ages).
– Actual sheet music printed in the magazine, BALLAD : The crayon portraits hung on Memory’s wall, try this over on your piano – and duck.
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, Old Home Week, unhappy old couple at “Home for the Aged and Infirm.”
– Half page vertical artwork by Farr, House up an immense flight of stairs, the real-estate agent said it was just a stone’s throw from the station.
– Some current events include : Florida passed legislation requiring daily reading of the Bible in public schools, Religion vs. Darwinism, Wages for farm labor have gone high so land isn’t being cultivated and more machinery is being used.
– And so much more!  1925 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!